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...National Orchestra of Belgium and assisting soloists from his seat at the piano. Nodding his big head, or gesturing slightly with a momentarily free hand to indicate the tempo, he kept superb command of the ensemble, while producing immaculate music from his own piano. Characteristically, it was Bach of uncommon serenity in the slow passages, of robust vigor in the strong ones. (Fischer on Bach: "Good phrasing, a moderate tempo and a clear head are the three requisites.") At the end of the third concert, the musicians joined in the applause, tapped their bows against their violins and cellos...
...Washington hearings go, it lacked excitement; there was no crowd, not many reporters, never a harsh word between witnesses and inquiring Congressmen. But the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, preparing a report on the ratification of the peace treaty with Japan and supplementary Pacific defense alliances, gave an uncommon show of bipartisan agreement over a problem in Asia...
...Clara, Southern Novelist Lonnie Coleman has handled a potentially messy theme with uncommon dignity. His story, in other hands, might have become a staring-eyed study of miscegenation. Author Coleman uses it to show that the color line in the South can sometimes follow a route as uncertain as the wanderings of human emotion...
...established herself as probably the best young prose writer in the U.S. In her new book, the manner is still fine, but the matter is thinner than ever. The heroine of The Catherine Wheel is Katharine Congreve, rich, lovely, kind and altogether admirable. Her problem is a not uncommon one, in or out of fiction: in her late 30s and unmarried, she gets a proposal of marriage from John Shipley, like herself a rich Bostonian, and the first man she ever loved. The catch is that he is married to her cousin, that all three are old friends, and that...
...book for its disdain of humdrum fact. Wrote scholarly Dr. Hu Shih, onetime Chinese Ambassador to the U.S.: "Empty padding . . . falsified history." Such adverse judgments are among the hazards a one-man writing factory runs. Payne works admittedly from what is at hand in public libraries, has an uncommon knack for converting a shelf of books on a given subject into a book of his own. He keeps four or five books going at once ("I get bored. I get excited about one book for a day and then I change over"). He is a professor of English at Alabama...